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2. Notations Any awkward transpositions (e.g. cueing a clarinet in A on a horn in F staff) are taken care of,
and either if necessary a suitable clef or an octave line is added to ensure the cue is easily readable, according to your preferences – see Paste as Cue preferences below The name of the cued instrument is written above the cue, using the Instrument name (cues) staff text style (which you can edit if you want to change its appearance or default position – 3.9 Edit Text Styles) If the staff type (e.g. number of lines) of the cued instrument and the destination staff don’t match, appropriate instrument changes are created at the start and end of the cue Particular markings (such as lyrics, dynamics, slurs and hairpins) are automatically included or excluded, according to your preferences – see Paste as Cue preferences below Any instrument changes in the source passage are automatically excluded The cue notes are set not to play back (by automatically switching off the Play on pass checkboxes in the Playback panel of Properties – see When to play back notes on page 299) Suitable bar rests are added in an unused voice in both the full score and the parts, so that they look correct (though if you want to, you can tell Sibelius not to add bar rests in the parts – see Paste as Cue preferences below).
About the only thing Sibelius doesn’t do is decide which instrument you should use for the cue, although it can even suggest where cues should be added – read on.
Suggest Cue Locations plug-in When preparing parts for performance, one of the more time-consuming aspects is determining where cues would be most useful to the performers. You may want to add cues after a certain number of bars’ rest, or after a certain length of time. Plug-ins Other Suggest Cue Locations can do this for you – see Suggest Cue Locations on page 522.
Check Cues plug-in Any edits you make to the music in your score after cueing the parts may potentially lead to errors in the cues, because Sibelius doesn’t automatically update the cue passages if the source staves from which they take their material are subsequently edited. However, a handy plug-in is included that can check cues against the music from which they are taken and warn you if it finds any disparities; simply select the passage in question and choose Plug-ins Proof-reading Check Cues – see Check Cues on page 527 for more details.
Paste as Cue preferences Various options for determining exactly what happens when you do Edit Paste as Cue are found on the Paste as Cue page of File Preferences (in the Sibelius menu on Mac), as shown below. The Pitch of Cue options provide three alternatives for how Sibelius should resolve differences in range between the source and destination staves: Change clef if necessary adds a clef at the start of the pasted cue, if the clefs used by the source
and destination staves don’t match. So if you paste a cue from, say, a cello staff onto a flute staff, Sibelius will create a bass clef at the start of the cue and restore the treble clef at the end. Note that these clef changes are only visible in the part.
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